{"id":717,"date":"2008-10-21T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative-launched\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"European hydrogen fuel initiative launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/world-energy.jpg\">The European Commission last week launched the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (JTI), a public private partnership with joint funding from the European Community (EU) and from industry with industry in the lead. The Commission will fund \u00e2\u201a\u00ac470m (US$615m) from the FP7 program over six years and at least the same amount will come from private industry. <\/p>\n<p>The promise is that the JTI will to deliver robust hydrogen supply and fuel cell technologies developed to the point of commercial take-off. For the automotive sector, the aim is to achieve breakthroughs in bottleneck technologies and to enable industry to take the large-scale commercialization decisions necessary to achieve mass market growth in the time-frame 2015-2020. For stationary fuel cells (domestic and commercial) and portable applications, the JTI will provide the technology base to initiate market growth from 2010-2015.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO\/08\/617\">statement<\/a> released by the initiative, &#8220;hydrogen should be seen as a complementary energy vector to electricity and biofuels. It is already part of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial technology; yet for energy use the real benefits can only be exploited with novel technologies such as fuel cells. As hydrogen can be produced from a great variety of primary energies and it can be advantageously utilized in a great variety of different applications (transport, portable and stationary power) it will form an energy hub like electric power. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hydrogen has the advantage over electricity that it can be stored much better, which could be used to match renewable power supply and power demand. Hydrogen can be carbon-dioxide-free or lean on its energy pathway if produced appropriately and it can be used as a transportation fuel without emitting carbon dioxide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission last week launched the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (JTI), a public private partnership with joint funding from the European Community (EU) and from industry with industry in the lead. The Commission will fund \u00e2\u201a\u00ac470m (US$615m) from the FP7 program over six years and at least the same amount will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrogen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9763,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}